lol yes, unfortunately Qullian is correct. my family has tried everything, and traps are the only thing that work. if you want to be humane there are "sticky" traps too, like glue paper. however some rats have been known to chew off their own legs in an effort to escape those, so it might really not be more humane after all. put the traps in a location you can check often, so their dead bodies don't "rot" somewhere unreachable.